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Ah, compression. I think I may try it. Thanks for the start up item edit tip, I've been using spybot search and destroy to do that, but this is better!

I think it's an amazing idea, but it might be hard to get the school to go for it. Maybe you could talk it over with the government teacher first, and get his/her support, or maybe just do it inside the class.

So a ghost image is usually on multiple disks, like DVDs? A ghost image of my hard drive would be eight or nine DVDs! This computer came with one CD that conatains a ghost image (I hate it, comes with all these useless programs that load at startup) for windows, how is that possible?

If you browser encrypts the traffic all it needs to give the ISP you're going through is the destination address right? And it is my understanding that this is all Torpark gives the ISP: some encripted traffic to send to a certain address (a tor server). So all the ISP can see is where it came from (because you sent them the traffic) and where it's going (becuase the ISP has to know where it's going to send it). But I probably have it all wrong

Americans don't have accents I'm reading a book about creating a world government right now (Shadow of the Giant by Card). It's a very interesting idea. If you've ever read the series, apparently the secret to getting everyone to except a world government is the fear of aliens (the space kind)

But how would a ghost image of a hard drive fit on a disk? What exactly is stored on a ghost image?

All data except the address where it came from and where it's going, right? In this case countries where individuals need to worry about what they do online can do what they want with a tor server and encription using browser (as long as they are content to surf at dial up speeds ).

Me too, but it's taken Even monkeymonkeymonkeymonkey.com is taken, it's just that cool.

DebunkingPseudoscience.com seems available NotReallyScience.com, DebunkedScience.com, PsuedoMeansFalse.com, or D-Bunked.com (I like that one ).

Someone explained it to me that even sites protected with SSL (https: instead of http:) the traffic is completely hidden fromt he ISP. As the traffic is encription on you computer, sent to ISP with address of the site, and decripted be the site. So all they know is where it came from and where it's going. And with Torpark using Tor servers, your traffic is encripted in the browser on you computer, sent to the ISP with an address to a Tor server, and decrited on a Tor server, and then sent to the site. So, the ISP would only see where the traffic came from, random encripted traffic, and where the traffic would make it's first stop -- a Tor server. Is this close?

You'd be surprised how different Seurat was different from earlier Impressionists. The "pure" Impressionist, Monet, would paint a picture really quickly and try to capture the essence of the light from the image. Those like Seurat (a Post-Impressionist) would do something similar graphically, but worry less about how it captured an actual impressions of light. Each piece was almost a scientific experiment. It's Impressionism with a scientific approach. Like this painting, every artist knows that when you mix paint to make a new color, that color is duller and less vibrant than the original colors used to mix it were. How can we fix this? Don't mix the colors, just put small dots on the canvass and allow the viewer to visually mix the colors, presurving the brightness of the mixed color! But I believe this artistic movement was short lived, causing it to be lumped with the "Impressionist" movement by those of us looking back. They were extremely similar, the commonplace subject matter, the style, and most Impressionists were pretty different from each other anyway. Monet who would only paint what he could see right in front of him (the Realist without the realism ), Manet who seemed like he just wanted to be different, and Renior just trying show what the people were like around him. In the end maybe Impressionists were just the ones trying new things.

Why not try? It's not hard.

I have a few different partitions, one for windows, one for linux, and one to share (fat32). Is there a way to ghost the whole hard drive so I could put it back the way it is now at anytime? How exactly does a ghost image work?

One of the many perks of a large society is that everyone is always thinking of stuff. So there's a guy, and he decides he can make money by implimenting a new energy source and selling it. Maybe out of billions of people in the world, a couple people will think of something like that. Maybe greed isn't the most moral of things to rely on, but it's so reliable. It's always the same. So the only way that we are in trouble is if oil is the only way to get effiecient energy. Does anyone really believe that? Theres a giant ball of burning gas radiading massive amounts of energy onto the earth. It takes up 99% of the matter in the entire solar system; it is the source for virtually ALL energy on earth. I want some of that action.

Wireless ethernet bridge? Do you need the network card if you can replace it with a wireless network card?

Is that a linear or exponential regression?

Sadly yes, I'm in the same room. The laptop floats around though, usually in the same room through. It is also having problems, but I don't use it so it might have always had problems I'm going to try the rest of the channels Edit: Channel 1 seems to work well with the laptop, but not my desktop so much. It's better,still at "low", but it's not dropping out anymore, which is very nice . I'm moving the router around, to get it as close to this computer as possible.

Meh, the work has been changing rapidly over the past 200 years already.

Okay, I've been changing the channel, but none of them seem to work any better

I defer to Dak, who is more experienced with these things.

If you have a router you don't need a firewall. Considering how much work you have to put in it, I would dual an easy version of Linux, Ubuntu. Use windows only for what you need it for and do your casual (or questionable) surfing in linux. You probably are not interested in this, but if you are it's pretty easy. Good tutorial: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6104490811311898236 Then again, I'm just a Ubuntu fanboy.

So it was probably a static ip address. That makes more sense

They said it would be good if I was a gamer ???

Wait, from what I understand it only hides what your doing from the sites that you go to, not your ISP. I thought a big use of this would have been for countries like china where access is restricted, would it work in those countries?

A ISP said they'd throw in a public ip address. As I said in the irc room last night I lock a fundimental understanding of the internet (I swear quest said we'd get 4 megabits, never downloaded past 1.3 or ~170 kilobytes per second ). Anyway, what is a public ip address for and why does it sound so cool?